Folding box.



(No Model.)

Patented Feb. 4. I902.

Z. B. WEBB.

FOLDING BOX.

Application filed July 12, 1901.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ZAIDA B. WEBB, OF WHIPPANY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO WEBB FOLDING BOX COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NE JERSEY.

\V JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW :roLomo BOX.

QPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 692,562, dated February 4, 1902.

Application filed July 12, 1901.

To all whom it nmy' concern: 9 Be it known that I, ZAIDA B. WEBB, o Whippany, county of Morris, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

My invention relates to improvements in folding boxes, and especially that class of folding boxes in'which a handle forms a part of the box.

The object of my invention is to produce a simple box of this character which cuts to advantage, which is easily manipulated, and which has handle members attached to opposed parts and constructed so that the two members when the box is set up may be easily engaged with each other and held so securely that they form a safe and convenient handle.

To these ends my invention consists of certain features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter de scribed and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a plan viewof the box-blank, showing my improvements. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the box when set up and with the. handle members disengaged; and Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but with the bandle members fastened together.

In carrying out myinvention I have shown the handle members, which constitute the distinctive improvement, in connection with a box-blank essentially like that shown in my pending application, Serial No. 63,509, filed June 7, 1901; but I do not'confine this im-' provement to a blank or box of this description. I will refer briefly to the main portions of the box, sothat the invention may be clearly understood in connection therewith. As illustrated, the box-blank has abottom portion 10, the two end pieces 11, and the two side pieces 12, which are adapted to fold up, respectively, to form the box ends and sides. The side pieces are provided withend flaps 16 and 19, which are adapted to fold across the box ends to form the said ends, the former flaps 16 hav- Serial No. 67,958. (No model.)

ing terminal tongues 17, which are adapted to enter the slots 18, which are formed partly in the flaps 19 and partly in the extensions or handle members 20 thereon.

The above construction,it will be noticed, is precisely like that in the application referred to, except. that the handle members 20 take the place of the extension-flaps on the parts 19. I have shown on one of the side pieces 12 a cover 13, having the usual side flaps l4 and terminal flap 15.

The handle members 20 instead of folding into the-box, as in my former application, are adapted to fold over the top of the box after the cover 13 is turned down and the flaps 14 and 15 tucked in. The handle members 20 are long enough to reach easily across the boxtop when the box is set up,.and each member has a laterally-arrangedtongue 21, this being preferably at the extremity of the member, and in forming the tongue the member 20 is notched, as shown at 22, so that the tongue is clear and may easily enter the slot 18 of the opposed member.

It will be noticed that the slot 18 is formed partly in the member 20 and partly in the flap 19, and the part that is in the member 20 will of course come above the box-top when the box is set up, as shownclearly in Figs. 2 and 3. The box is set up in the usual way, and when the handle members are to be engaged they are overlapped, one lying flat above the other, as in Fig. 3, and the tongue 21 of one member is placed underneath the opposing member and is thrust through the slot 18 of the opposed member, while the second tongue 21 comes on the top side of the first-mentioned member and is tuckedinto its slot 18. 'Thus the end of each member 20 is fastened to the opposed member near the base of the said member, and in this way a two-ply handle is very easily made,-which is firm and secure.

The handle of this box formation constitutes my present invention, and this construction can be advantageously employed in con- 5 nection with the box shown and described; but I do not confine this form of handle to such a box, as obviously the handle members can be produced on the opposed edges of any form of box, the one necessary thing 10o at each side a laterally-extending tongue so that when the opposed members are overlapped the tongue of one shall enter the slot of the other and a two-ply handle be thereby formed.

being to slot the handle members near the base, and to provide them with the lateral tongues, as specified.

Having thus described my invention, what 5 I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is In testimony whereof I have signed my The combination with a folding box, of opname to this specification in the presence of posed handle members, each formed integral I two subscribing witnesses. with an adjacent edge of the box, each mem- ZAIDA l3. \VEBB. x0 ber being slotted longitudinally from the box edge toward the free end of the member, and each member having also at its free end and In presence of HENRY H. DAWSON, LAURA E. HARDGROVE. 

